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burnt sienna
[ burnt see-en-uh ]
noun
- sienna1
- an intense dark reddish-brown color.
burnt sienna
noun
- a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
- a dark reddish-orange to reddish-brown colour
Word History and Origins
Origin of burnt sienna1
Example Sentences
“If I if I sell you a tube of ‘burnt sienna,’ that is God’s honest burnt sienna, dug up out of the ground, burned in an oven,” Cole says.
The rap against Rushdie’s fiction is that it’s become increasingly “magical,” wonder-filled and windy, as if he were typing in turquoise and burnt sienna.
The playwright meticulously unwraps his psychology, interrupting the churlish commentary with lush and tender descriptions of color, like the “magenta, crimson lake, viridian, burnt sienna, cinnabar green” he’s putting to use in a painting.
But also there: “apricot,” “burnt sienna” and “mahogany.”
His palette ran to burnt umber, yellow ocher, burnt sienna, olive green.
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